This piece is the second in a series of ink drawings exploring themes of Black joy, justice, and radical leisure. The series was inspired by the common practice of mailing postcards of lynchings casually across the country with the goal of flipping the apathy and violence against Black American bodies back onto violent oppressors.

This piece, both in imagery and title, is a homage to the Black diasporic practice of a traditional “cookout” while calling out the direct conflict of being “invited to the cookout” as a non-Black person. It is intended to be a glaring visualization of how that phrase is a reflection of colonization through the expression of our oppressors needing to be included in everything that was created separately due to our exclusion from White American society. This is also a criticism of those within the community who are overenthusiastic about inviting people to the “cookout” for displaying appropriation of our cultures. I want people to continue to evaluate what it would mean for them to abandon that which impedes revolution, whether that means leaving behind organized European religion or leaving behind false European allyship.